..Moreover, we show that several lifestyle choices, such as sleeping habits and breakfast staple, affect gray matter volume in healthy children. There are a number of uninvestigated important issues that require future study...

A longitudinal study of age- and gender-related annual rate of volume changes in regional gray matter in healthy adults

..Because the trajectory of gray matter volume and density with age suggests the progress of brain maturation, our results may contribute to clarifying brain maturation in healthy children from the viewpoint of brain structure...

..Our results indicate that higher order association cortices mature after the lower order cortices, and may help clarify the mechanisms of normal brain maturation from the viewpoint of brain perfusion...

..Our results suggest that individual variability in specific cognitive functions that are relatively well preserved with aging is accounted for by the variability of gray matter volume in healthy elderly subjects...

Gender differences in partial-volume corrected brain perfusion using brain MRI in healthy children

..The findings showed significant differences between boys and girls in brain perfusion with PVC, and these differences may contribute to gender differences in the cognitive ability of healthy children...

..The APC(GMR) of younger women was lower than that in older women and men. Our results may help in understanding the mechanism(s) of normal brain aging, and in distinguishing neurodegenerative diseases from normal aging...

..These results showed that WMT induces plasticity in neural mechanisms involving DMN and the EAS during rest and indicated that intrinsic brain activity and connectivity can be affected by cognitive training. ..

..We aimed to evaluate the clinical value of positron emission tomography using F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG-PET) that was prompted by increases of serum CA19-9 without findings on conventional imaging...

Working memory training using mental calculation impacts regional gray matter of the frontal and parietal regions

..The first pattern is often observed at the borders of GM structures. These findings may have to be taken into consideration when group/individual differences in functional activation are investigated...

..Systemizing was associated with increased positive functional coupling between the key nodes of EAS in males. These findings provide further support for the concept of an association between DMN/EAS and empathizing/systemizing. ..

Effects of multitasking-training on gray matter structure and resting state neural mechanisms

..Observed structural changes may underlie previously reported improvement of working memory capacity, improvement of other cognitive functions, and altered functional activity following working memory training...

Association between gray matter volume in the caudate nucleus and financial extravagance: findings from voxel-based morphometry

..We found that structural variations in the caudate nucleus contributed to individual differences in financial extravagance. This finding may provide a new neuroscientific approach to understanding individual characteristics of consumers...

..Furthermore, the brain areas in which rGMD correlated with CAM are related to cognitive processes associated with distressing emotions and social cognition, and these cognitive processes may characterize CAM...

..Taken together, age-related differences in hippocampal activities and hippocampus-ATL connectivity could contribute to age-related decline in relational memory and to complaints of poor retrieval of people's names by older adults...

Neural bases of a specific strategy for visuospatial processing in rugby players

..These findings suggest that each factor of EI in healthy young people is related to the specific brain regions known to be involved in the networks of social cognition and self-related recognition, and in the somatic marker circuitry...

..These findings provide new evidence of psychophysiological responses at the neural network level soon after a stressful life event and might contribute to the development of effective methods to prevent PTSD. ..

A voxel-based morphometry study of gray and white matter correlates of a need for uniqueness

Kai WuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University Sendai, Japan Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology Guangzhou, ChinaFront Hum Neurosci 7:113. 2013

..Our findings elucidate the network topology of structural brain networks and its longitudinal changes, thus enhancing the understanding of the underlying physiology of normal aging in the human brain...